 | William Muir - Bible - 1911 - 296 pages
...and simple, from John O 'Groat's ' to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the ' Italians : that it is written in the noblest and purest ' English,...civilizations, and ' of a great past stretching back to the furthest limits ' of the oldest nations in the world. By the study of ' what other book could children... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - Social problems - 1911 - 176 pages
...of all that is noblest and best in English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain; that it is written in the noblest and purest English...existence of other countries and other civilizations of a great past stretching back to .the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world. By the... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...and simple, from John-o'-Groat's House to Land's End, ae Dante and Tasso were once to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English,...literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest liind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations,... | |
 | 1911 - 844 pages
...form; and, finally, <nat it forbids the veriest hind who ui-vr left his village to be ignorant of tbe existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world. By the. study of what other book (he *dda) could... | |
 | Clayton Sedgwick Cooper - Bible - 1911 - 264 pages
...and simple from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once to the Italians; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hiud who never left his village to... | |
 | Clarence Augustus Barbour - Bible - 1911 - 244 pages
...noble and simple from John o'Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once to the Italians; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village... | |
 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - Bible - 1912 - 304 pages
...and simple, from John-o'-Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians; that it is written in the noblest and purest English,...civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world. By the study of what other book could children... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1907 - 1038 pages
...and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once to the Italians, that it is written in the noblest and purest English...civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world. By the study of what other book could the children... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1900 - 482 pages
...and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians; that it is written in the noblest and purest English...ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilisations and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...him and what will not, the Bible may afford him also invaluable lessons of style '. — M. Arnold. ' It is written in the noblest and purest English, and...abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form.' — TH Huxley. ' Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible... | |
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... book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain... 
